Travel-direction indicator



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TRAVEL DIRECTION INDICATOR Flled Nov 11, 1924 m" Z/ m Sept. 21 1926.

If! //l/ L. NAGY TRAVEL DIRECTION INDICATOR Sept. 21, 1926. 1,600,559

Filed Newf- 11. 1924 1 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 lnven to): Lou/s M45) An Hey.

Patented Sept. 21, 1926.

UNITED STATES,

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Application filed November 11, 1924. Serial No. 749,248. I

a traffic oiiicer having arms adapted to being" manipulated to indicate the direction to be traveled or taken, and the advantages reside in the fact that the said sign board may'have illuminating lights placed to call attention to the presence of thesame. And being adapted for manipulation from the vehicle, or from a distance from the location of the device.

I attainv these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings,

in which- Fig. 1 is a front view: of the assembled device, with the closure of the base removed to illustrate the operating'mechanism and the remainder of the dotted lines to show the operating mechanisms.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a steering wheel and the operating lever attached thereto.

Fig. 3 illustrates a detached view of the connection by flexible cable or other flexible connecting driving means between the operating lever and the operating gearing.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged, detached View of the shaft and gear segments for operating the semaphores.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 6 is a detached view of the direction indicator to be placed within the semaphore.

Like reference characters refer to like parts throughout the several views- 1 is a base made of suitable material for housing the operating gearing and at the same time to act as a suitable support for the operating device, which is here shown as that of a male figure 2, which is herein shown to represent a traffic officer when the same is to be used as a semaphore, at a street crossing, and when positioned in a heavy stream of traffic; the same should be made of suitable material and strength to withstand the shocks encountered in such work. The figure 2 has hinged arm like semaphores 3 and 4 for indicating the direction of traflic, and at the same time carry indicators to state the direction of travel, as shown at 3 and 4 Vertical shafts 5 and 6 traverse the body portion of the figure 2 and serve as the driving the mechanisms.

is a flexible,

medium to operate 7 drive shaft, housing mounted upon the steering column and is connected to the operating lever 10 that is held in position upon the quadrant'9. The

drive shaft 11 which directly connects the operating lever 10 with the gear 12, passes through a suitable bearing 13 which is mounted to the housing 14 located at the back of the base 1. Coacting with the gear 12is a second gear 15 mounted upon stub shaft 16 which also has mounted thereupon the gear quad= rent 17 and the stop'18, which has stops 19 and 20 located in the path of travel of the arm and limits the distance to he traversed, or rotated,by the stop arm 18. The quadrant gear 17 meshes with the quadrants 2'1 and 22, better illustrated in Fig. 4 and if the lever 10is operated to raise the arm carrying the right turn indicator the quadrant 17 will engage the" quadrant" 21 and in doing so will disengage from the quadrant 22, this will afford rotation to the shaft 5 and likewise to the pulley 23 located at the upper end thereof. Secured to the pulley 23 and operating within the groove thereof is a cable of suitable material 24 which has its opposite end secured to the projection 34 of the arm supporting frame 33, and as the shaft 5 is rotated the cable 24 is wound around the pulley and the arm 3 is raised to the dotted position as shown in Fig. 1. The arm 3 is hinged about the pins 35, to which the gear 25 is held in a fixed position. The gear 25 meshes with the gear 26 mounted on shaft 27 which is disposed lengthwise of the supporting frame 33, and as the arms 3 and 4 and th ir supporting frames 33, are raised, rotation is imparted to the shaft 27 by means of the gear 26 mounted thereon engaging the stationary gear 25. Secured to shaft 27 is a signal box 28, having one, or more, sides upon which trafiic signals are displayed, in letters, sufficiently large, to be read at a distance, and which indicate the direction to be taken, which register with openings within the arms. This box may be made of transparent material for use at night in which event a suitable illumination may be furnished to illuminate the same. If the arm on the opposite side of the figure is to be raised the operating lever 10 is turned in the opposite direction and the on the opposite side sirable a lamp 30 is placed upon the sign board in conjunction with a suitable reflecting means 81 and the same connected up with a source of illuminating energy such as illuminating gas or electric current and the lamp 30 illuminated for night use. The ro tatable members carrying the direction indiv cator being hollow may be illuminated from the'same source for night use. 7

Having thus described my lnvention I ,wish to make the following claims, therefor- 1. In a travel direction indicator, the combination of a housing representing a hu man figure, of shafts vertically mounted within said housing, quadrant gears mounted at the lower ends of said shafts, a stub shaft mounted between said vertical shafts, a segmentgear mounted to said stub shaft and engageable with said quadrant gears, a flexible shaft and a train of gears connected to said stub shaft, grooved pulleys mounted at the upper ends of said vertical shafts, arm supporting frame, pivotally mounted to the upper part of said housing, projecting portion mounted at the upper ends of said arm supporting frames, and

extending over and inwardly from the pivotal point thereof, and flexible cables, each having one end secured to said pulleys and the other end secured to said projecting portion.

2. In a travel direction indicator, the

. combination of a housing representing a huat the upper endsof said vertical. shafts, arm

supporting frames pivotally mounted to the upper part of said housing, projecting portions mounted at the upper endsof said arms supporting frames and extending over, and inwardly from the pivotal point. thereof,

flexible cables, eachhaving one secured to said pulleys and the other end secured to said projecting portion, a stationary gear mounted at the pivotal point of said arm support frames, a shaft revolubly mounted in said arm support frames, a gear mounted on said shaft and engaging with said stationary gear, and a signal box having transparent side walls mounted on said shaft.

LOUIS AG 

